Public health practitioners are unlikely to respond to mortality events in animals that are not clearly due to West Nile virus or other known zoonoses, such as rabies (Rabinowitz et al., 2005). Reasons for the underuse of animal sentinel data by human health professionals may include limited ...
Because of their small size, wild silver foxes can fall prey to bigger animals like wolves, coyotes, and wildcats. Silver foxes can also carry conditions like rabies, mange, and distemper.
... This was all set up with the polio and the small pox -- we said 'oh, yes, of course, vaccines are wonderful, when can I get a vaccine for this, you know... 'give me a vaccine that will fix this problem', and we've got that entire mentality. Which is amazing to me ...